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Youth Needs Assessment

 

 

Meeting: 11/10/2023 - Executive (Item 95)

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Purpose:

To consider the recommendations made to the council as a result of the Youth Needs Assessment, in which we gained the views of just under 4000 young people to better understand the challenges they face.

 

Recommendations:

That the Executive Resolves to: 

a)    Ask officers to engage with Oxfordshire County Council to work up a proposal to create a dedicated youth specialist role for the Council to lead on Young People and carry forward the recommendations of the Youth Needs Assessment. This proposal should come back to the Executive for approval if it has direct financial implications for the Council.

b)    Dedicate a specific stream of funding on the WestHive platform for youth activities particularly those led by young people themselves.

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Minutes:

Councillor Andy Graham, Leader of the Council, introduced report, before inviting Heather McCulloch, Community Wellbeing Manager, to provide a further overview regarding the report and its recommendations.

The Youth Needs Assessment Report considered recommendations made to Council as a result of the Youth Needs Assessment, in which the Council obtained views of approximately 4000 young people to better understand the challenges they faced.

The Executive encouraged young persons and other residents within the district to read the findings of the survey undertaken, which were available on the Council’s website, and to explore ways of accessing vital funding for projects from a fund set aside by the Council.

Councillor Andy Graham proposed that the Executive agree to the recommendations as listed on the report. This was seconded by Councillor Andrew Prosser, was put to a vote, and was agreed unanimously by the Executive.

The Executive Resolved to:

  1. Ask officers to engage with Oxfordshire County Council, to work up a proposal to create a dedicated youth specialist role for the County Council, to lead on Young People and carry forward the recommendations of the Youth Needs Assessment. This proposal should come back to the Executive for approval if it has direct financial implications for the Council;
  2. Dedicate a specific stream of funding on the WestHive platform for youth activities particularly those led by young people themselves.

 

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